The party of science?
Link here. Read it and weep, as this essay describes to a T a steadily increasing number of citizens, from all political persuasions.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Link here. Read it and weep, as this essay describes to a T a steadily increasing number of citizens, from all political persuasions.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
It seems to me, that if science and engineering were to wed with a party, it would be with the conservatives, touchy feely doesn’t get it when a bridge or a rocket are designed, only cold hard numbers and facts apply, in the democrats world, they like to think “what if” with no real sense of actual structure, only what they think should be with no grounding in reality.
Joe:
Excellent point!
I think Roberts point is that science and ideology should never be mixed, the results will be what we have now, politics and power will move the discourse. Education is really kept expensive to keep society dumb, those in power prosper on ignorance.
“I think Roberts point is that science and ideology should never be mixed”
Eisenhower said the same thing in his farewell address, right after warning about the “military and industrial complex”.
Liberals love quoting the latter, and avoid the former like a plague.
Eddie Willers, one of the more likeable characters in one of my favorite books, Atlas Shrugged!